![]() Always on Sunday (1962) is a spoof of Jules Dassin’s Never on Sunday (1960) the club gathered, and filmed, weekly on Sundays. The Riding Club’s first efforts were shot without sound, on black-and-white 16mm film, with music and sound effects added later. Recently their films have resurfaced in gorgeous digital restorations, thanks to the efforts of UCLA’s Film and Television Archive, the American Genre Film Archive, and the assiduous research of the queer film historian Elizabeth Purchell, who has chosen five of the group’s six extant films to screen on Metrograph’s streaming service for Pride Month. Many of the club’s members worked in the entertainment industry, and in the early 1960s they started making their own amateur films: increasingly elaborate spoofs of popular American and European releases of the time, with the GGRC and their friends as the cast and crew. ![]() Formed in the late 1950s and lasting until the 1980s, the GGRC was a private social club of Hollywood homosexuals whose activities included horseback riding in Griffith Park and holding dinners, notorious Halloween costume parties, and drag performances. ![]() For decades the zany underground comedies of the Gay Girls Riding Club were all but lost to history.
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